Healthcare and Life Sciences
Our reputable and experienced healthcare and life sciences lawyers provide a full range of legal services to companies and professionals active in the healthcare and life sciences sectors.
Our specialists regularly work together on regulatory issues with experts from our Public Law and EU and Competition Law practices. This multidisciplinary approach allows us to provide our clients with coordinated and integrated solutions. Our regular contacts with public authorities and institutions, such as the European Commission, the European Medicines Agency, all Benelux medicines agencies and other competent regulators, work to the benefit of our clients’ position and legal strategies.
Services
We perform advisory, litigation and complex regulatory work for companies, care institutions and other professionals active in the pharmaceutical, biotechnological, healthcare, medical device and food sectors, at both EU and national levels.
We are active in numerous areas, such as intellectual property (including patents, trademarks and know-how/trade secrets), licences, compliance and sanctions, R&D/collaboration agreements, and advertising. Our Belgian experts also specialise in pricing/reimbursement, parallel imports, clinical trials, distribution, and product registration (including biosimilars).
Our strong litigation practice handles IP and regulatory disputes relating to medicinal products and medical devices. Our lawyers also have high-level expertise in compliance issues (including negotiations with the Belgian regulatory authorities regarding alleged violations of pharmaceutical laws), and regulatory and IP aspects.
We assist our clients with regulatory issues pertaining to medicines, e-health, big data, privacy, data protection and professionals operating in the care sector (including physicians, medical specialists and pharmacists). Furthermore, we regularly advise on the regulations that apply to hospitals and care facilities (such as legal status, restructuring and modus operandi of service flats, retirement homes, homes for the disabled, and psychiatric institutions). Our Belgian experts also advise on medical liability (under both civil law and criminal law) and medical technology and devices.